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The attack on the Chesapeake climaxed a two-year test of American neutrality by the British and the French. When war gone ,Americans wanted no part of the struggle. However, as a neutral nation the United States claimed the right to trade with both nations.
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The US and the British fight by cutting others trade, and the British blocked the post of the US.
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Napoleon quickly struck back
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Which forbade all American ships to leave for foreign ports.By cutting off American exports, Jefferson hoped to force Britain and France to come to terms. The embargo also would keep American ships and sailors at home and protect them from seizure.
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In the election of 1808, Medison and his running mate, George Clinton, defeated their Federalist opponents. But the republicans lost all of New England except Vermont.
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This bill- the Nonintercourse Act- allowed allowed America to resume trade with all countries but Britain and France.
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The Nonintercourse Act was allowed to expire, and in May he signed a new measure. This law removed all restrictions on trade, and offered something more to tempt Britain and France into agreeing to American terms. If either country agreed to respect the neutral rights of the United States, the President would cut off trade with the other.
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Most Republicans came to share this view. Soon after Congress met in 1811, trouble in the Northwest added to the growing clamor for war.
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Madison received word that the British stand on neutral rights remained unyielding .
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American troops launched a three-pronged attack against Canada.
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John Quincy Adams said that:" I hope it would be the last treaty of peace between Great British and the United States."
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